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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459996" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Beauty of the shining self</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The life of a ‘minor poet’, an amateur, <br>of, say, fifty, a hundred years, ago, <br>and long before that: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">a lifetime’s love of poetry; <br>and one’s personal contribution, <br>after 25 years, let’s say, might be<br>a ‘slim volume’ of verse, <br>distillation of that lifetime, <br>printed elegantly at one’ s own expense<br>in 200 copies, maybe, <br>a few sent to literary journals<br>for, perhaps, a few lines of review; and<br>some letters of appreciative response<br>from friends to whom one sent the poems; <br>‘the quintessence of a beautiful soul’, wrote one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">today – when ‘beauty’ is no longer thought a virtue<br>in many areas of art – there’s something<br>more important, so some think –<br>a poem on the internet as here<br>can produce a written response<br>so unexpected, so beautifully expressed, <br>that it leaves no doubt of what the sages say: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">that there are two aspects of that which we call ‘beauty’: <br>the fine, yet temporary, one which may be studied, learnt –<br>a lifetime, say, curating or collecting Chinese ceramics<br>of the finest period, when making or owning such a pot<br>was like a spiritual act of devotion –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and that beauty which is eternal – that of the human self, <br>shining in all its glory from a human being so roused, <br>beauty that melts one’s heart and brings one to one’s knees<br>all inwardly; known, reflected; entirely of itself; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and which can be found from time to time<br>blazing from the screen here, from persons known or unknown, <br>within a ‘Comments’ box…<br>a beauty, surely, greater by far than any poem, <br>revealing all the riches of the human heart<br>without any inhibition; <br>and yet, given cause to blaze out thus<br>by this form of words called poetry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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of, say, fifty, a hundred years, ago, 
and long before that: 

a lifetime’s love of poetry; 
and one’s personal contribution, 
after 25 years, let’s say, might be
a ‘slim volume’ of verse, 
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